Candidate for
Council Member; City of Galt

I did not interview with any group seeking to endorse candidates in our election.

• I did speak to one newspaper that asked me to. I don't expect their endorsment though.

Even though I didn't seek nor want endorsments, it is hard when I see ads or support from people I considered friends, given to others running. I don't care about an endorsement, it's the support of the person the I appreciate. I have worked so hard for, and taken heat from other council members for trying to establish or re-establish a good working relationship, then see them working for candidates that haven't been tested by fire yet.

• Makes a person wonder what they expect from a council member?

• I jump, but only if I think it is the right thing to do.

• With Nine people running, only three can win, six are disappointed.
  
• And their friends and supporters are upset, and on and on.

To much bitterness after the election. It isn't worth it. Non profit and public service organizations should keep the name of their group out of the campaign, and let individual members work for anyone they choose to support. Even if their candidates win, others will make claims that hurt the organizations.

How soon we forget the aftermath of November 1998. The blood bath that followed was ugly and painful, and some people are not over it four years later. But, the groups are at it, and we'll see what comes of it. even if they knock me out, I have learned one thing if nothing else:

• You never know what a person is going to be like until after they are in office. The best person can be a terrible council member, and a not so popular person can be the best. You don't know.
  
• I found out the hard way, that even when you vote for and help elect a person, they can turn on you in a second.

• Yep! I found that out the hard way. And I may end up paying a higher price for that mistake than I ever would have imagined.

• History does repeat itself, again!

• Endorsements? Not For Me!